1.   All three colts run in the final round of Kentucky Derby prep races.

2.   As the prep races for the Derby and the other Triple Crown races begin this weekend, the billfold is open at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie.

3.   At this stage of his training regimen, Mott said, Favorite Trick will have to make it to Louisville using only two prep races.

4.   Because he had not competed in any prep races, Worldly Manner was not expected to last.

5.   Beware the prep race!

6.   A victory in this major prep race could shoot any of three horses to the top of some Derby handicaps.

7.   After winning two allowance races at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans last month, Crimson Classic has had trouble in his two Kentucky Derby prep races.

8.   All three prep races are at a mile and an eighth.

9.   But he gave a strong performance after traveling halfway round the world on an experimental training regimen with no prep races.

10.   But Proud Citizen, who had finished off the board in three of five starts, surprisingly won a prep race at Keeneland in late April.